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ANNA KLUMPKE IN THE GARDEN

If you haven't yet visited the Chateau and Atelier of Rosa Bonheur you have another reason to go this summer.

ANNA KLUMPKE IN THE GARDEN JUNE 1ST TO SEPTEMBER 18TH EXHIBITION

Anna Klumpke (1856-1942) was an American portrait and genre painter born in San Francisco, California, United States. She and her family lived in Germany, Switzerland and France during her formative years. In childhood Anna had once owned a Rosa Bonheur doll. Her family was well-educated and accomplished. Read about two of her sisters who were pioneers in math and science here. https://fusac.fr/women-scientists-international-women-and-girls-in-science-day/. A thrid sister was a pianist and Anna studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris. She spent many an hour copying paintings in the Musée du Luxembourg, including Rosa Bonheur's Ploughing in the Nivernais. She presented her first work at the Paris Salon in 1884 and exhibited regularly in following years. While still a…

THE OTHER CORONATION

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE OTHER CORONATION Photographic exhibit from MAY 5 to SEPTEMBER 3, 2023 On 6 May 2023, Charles III and his wife Camilla were crowned King and Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. On this occasion, the Fondation HCB revisits Henri Cartier-Bresson's iconic series of photographs of the coronation of Charles's grandfather King George VI in 1937. King George VI’s coronation in London, on May 12, 1937, was one of the most newsworthy events of the interwar period. Having already spent several months working for the newly founded communist newspaper Ce Soir, French street photographer Cartier-Bresson was on site to cover the event. While most reporters were attempting to photograph the coronation ceremony, the coach’s passage, or the royal family’s emergence on the balcony, that’s not what interested Cartier-Bresson. Rather than the new King, he preferred to photograph the people watching him pass by. Amo…

Interview with American writer Jake Lamar

American writer Jake Lamar will visit Bill & Rosa's Book Room on June 3 to discuss his latest novel, Viper’s Dream which has just been published in English. He is an American author who has lived in Paris for almost 30 years, he teaches creative writing at Sciences Po and is the author of a memoir, seven novels, numerous essays, reviews and short stories and a play. He is also the recipient of several prestigious prizes, among which the Lyndhurst Prize and France’s Grand Prize for best foreign thriller. He is fascinating to listen to, passionate about Harlem jazz and has a excellent speaking voice that will draw you in. This is the first part of our interview with him:

Q: You started out as a journalist for Time Magazine, so my question is, have you always wanted to be a writer and have you always known you wanted to write ficiton?

A: I’ve known since the age of 12 that I wanted to be a writer and that I wanted to write fiction. The jo…

Who was Edouard Vuillard?

6 May 16:00 Art historian and biographer Julia Frey will be at Bill & Rosa's Book Room to discuss her book Venus betrayed : the private world of Edouard Vuillard, a thought-provoking biography of a secretive turn-of-the-century French artist. Many have researched Édouard Vuillard, a prolific painter, for his contributions to the avant-garde. But what sets Venus Betrayed apart is its attention to the figure behind the paintings. Frey uses Vuillard’s body of work and unpublished journals to access the interior state of the artist. Frey subtly reveals this life through his relationships with contemporaries from Toulouse-Lautrec to Mallarmé; the ideas that obsessed him; his often-tortured artistic process. Frey has produced a deeply intimate picture of the artist in life and at work. The result is a refined perspective into both the artist’s masterpieces and unfinished projects, as well as a striking argument for the relationship between artistic atmosphere and production.…

Faith Ringgold et The Musée national Picasso

The Musée national Picasso-Paris hosts the first exhibition in France to bring together a group of major works by Faith Ringgold. She is an emblematic figure of a committed and feminist American art, from the struggles for civil rights to those of Black Lives Matter, and the author of very famous works of children's literature. Her work links the rich heritage of the Harlem Renaissance to the current art of young black American artists. Through her rereadings of modern art history, she leads a true plastic and critical dialogue with the Parisian art scene of the early 20th century, notably with Picasso and his Demoiselles d'Avignon. Born in New York City in 1930, Faith Ringgold grew up in Harlem, the northern part of Manhattan that became the symbolic capital of the cultural awakening of black communities between the wars. She spent her childhood in a thriving community of creators, musicians, writers and thinkers. She continued to live and work there as an artist and pu…

The striking Portrait of Buffalo Bill

The unlikely friendship of ROSA BONHEUR and BUFFALO BILL and the striking portrait of Buffalo Bill remembered at Bill & Rosa’s Book Room, at the “Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)” exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay and on World Radio Paris. The striking Portrait of Buffalo Bill In an episode of “Turning Points in France”, on World Radio Paris, Patricia Killeen chatted with Natacha Henry, an international consultant on gender-based violence and an award-winning Anglo-French author living in Paris. Natacha saw a portrait of Colonel William Cody, aka BUFFALO BILL painted by French artist and feminist ROSA BONHEUR, at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Intrigued by the connection between the famous French animal painter and the American showman, Natacha researched the story of the unlikely encounter between these two mythical characters. It turned out to be a riveting tale, and the inspiration for her novel: “THE FRENCH PAINTER AND THE AMERICAN SHOWMAN: THE UNLIKE…

“RECONCILIATION”

“RECONCILIATION” Wrapped in the joyous colors of Martin Parr and imbued with Henri Cartier- Bresson’s timeless portraits of humanity, RECONCILIATION is a satisfying last-minute holiday gift to yourself, alone or accompanied... and it’s up through January 29. The exhibition opened in November, launching an additional exhibition space called “The Tube” created by renovating an 18th century cellar located beneath the existing Fondation HCB at 79 Rue des Archives, 75003 Paris, France. The style of the two photographers is as opposite as can be: in the words of Cartier-Bresson, they come from “two separate solar systems.” Parr’s saturated, often garishly-colored images of the northern English working and middle classes document that population “at work and at play” during three different time periods: the early 1960’s, the mid ‘80s, and after 2010. Through his lens we see the bumpy transformation of working-class England from a grim, Dickensian manufacture-based economy to an …

Rosa Bonheur Book Event at the Book Room

Event! To conclude the 2022 celebrations of our namesake Rosa Bonheur's bicentennial Bill & Rosa's Book Room is hosting award-winning historical novelist Natacha Henry on December 3rd at 4pm. Ms Henry will present her book THE FRENCH PAINTER AND THE AMERICAN SHOWMAN: THE UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP OF ROSA BONHEUR AND BUFFALO BILL. This historical novel tells the moving story of the unlikely encounter between French animal painter Rosa Bonheur and the American entertainer Colonel William Cody, aka Buffalo Bill. In 1889 Rosa Bonheur, France’s best-known animal painter, is living in seclusion in her chateau near Paris. One day, she reads that Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show are coming to France. Rosa Bonheur sees a unique opportunity: she will be able to draw real American bison and wild mustangs. New inspiration! The American West always fascinated her. She might even get to meet and paint portraits of the Lakota Sioux who are also part of the Wild West Show. But will the fe…

WOMEN WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS

WOMEN WAR PHOTGRAPHERS

Musée de la Liberation of Paris, 8 March-31 December, 2022 LEE MILLER (1907-1977) GERDA TARO (1910-1937) CATHERINE LEROY (1944-2006) CHRISTINE SPENGLER (B. 1945) FRANÇOISE DEMULDER (1947-2008) SUSAN MEISELAS (B. 1948) CAROLYN COLE (B. 1961) ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS (1965-2014)

War photography has a short but rapidly evolving history. Although cameras were developed in the mid-19th century, photographic news coverage was sparse: cameras were bulky and exposures long, emulsions ﬁnicky to process. By 1927 Kodak had invented roll ﬁlm, as German and Russian companies developed easily portable 35mm cameras. WWI birthed organized journalism, and by WWII it had become a vital component of the news industry, complete with photos. By the late 1920s a few determined women had begun to inﬁltrate the formerly all-male ranks of war photographers, receiving accreditation by hungry press services an…

Rosa Bonheur Bicentennial Continuing Celebrations

As you probably know Bill & Rosa's Book room was named for the showman Buffalo Bill and the painter Rosa Bonheur (learn who Rosa was here). March 16th is Rosa's birthday and this year, 2022, is the Rosa Bonheur Bicentennial. To celebrate her 200th birthday here's a sampling of the events which include the naming of Rosa Bonheur's rose, the launch of a postage stamp, retrospective exhibitions at the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, exhibition at the Château de Fontainebleau, publications, conferences, documentaries, tributes... At Rosa Bonheur's Chateau Exhibition: The Museum of the missing artwork The Château de By, just outside Paris near Fontainebleau, Rosa's residence for nearly 40 years, is, in 2022, full of effervescence for this big anniversary. The kickoff happened last week when their new exhibition space was inaugurated. The first exhibit is called Le Musée des oeuvres disparues or the Museum of the missing artwork. Throughout her lif…

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